Verioska Velasco

Verioska Velasco is a Venezuelan political journalist best known for her TV research documentaries on widely publicized cases of political corruption at the highest judiciary levels in Venezuela.^[1][2][3][4] In 2003, she and her team endured noted harassment by pro-government militants during her coverage of opposition demonstrations in Barquisimeto and other cities.^[5][6] For several years (2004-2012), she occupied top positions within the research team at TV news outlet Globovisión.^[7] In 2013, she acted as an adviser to the claimers at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the indictment of the Venezuelan government for the alleged violation of the human rights of political prisoner Raúl José Díaz Peña.^[8] She later accompanied charity Juan Cuadrado foundation in Colombia.^[9] From 2015 to 2023 she became a private communications consultant to Mario Abdo Benítez along his career as a political leader and president of Paraguay.^[9][10] Having concluded this commitment in August 2023, Velasco is now enrolled as a student of the Executive Master's Program in Asia-Pacific and Latin American studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan.^[11]